Damn, free'd up some massive space on the HD

I keep all my music on DVD's (140 gigs), and then I burn a large DVD folder of a few gig of pictures once I get a substantial amount (currently have 20 gig of pics on DVD), so I keep my HD pretty clean. Just the OS basically.

Tonight I used "whatsize" to check where the larger files were and found out that on my clean computer I was still using 20 gig of space. I was like WTF...

After deleting 3 gig of printer drivers I did not need, 7 gig of garage band, 3 gig of Idvd, and a few other misc gigs of crap my total usage is now 6.3 gig . 14 gigs of crap gone. I had already deleted language support later last year.

for what its worth, just be careful about keeping your music and pictures on DVDs. home-made DVDs definitely don't last forever (varies by brand, but can be just a few years before it starts to go), so you'd probably want a backup of them somewhere

I did an erase and install before I even used my MacBook. Installed core OS, Photobooth, and Xcode. Takes up about 3 gigs, 5 with Xcode.

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im talking about the fact that hes happy he just deleted 14 gigs and that his whole os only takes up 6 gigs. if youre not going to use the space, why even have a large drive... shit like keeping music and pictures on dvds would get annoying. i cant even imagining wanting to hear a song and having to go find the dvd its on, then put it on my computer, then browse to the song just to listen to it.

believe me im all for getting rid of garageband, using xslimmer, monolingual, etc. but theres a point when its too much.

im talking about the fact that hes happy he just deleted 14 gigs and that his whole os only takes up 6 gigs. if youre not going to use the space, why even have a large drive... shit like keeping music and pictures on dvds would get annoying. i cant even imagining wanting to hear a song and having to go find the dvd its on, then put it on my computer, then browse to the song just to listen to it.

believe me im all for getting rid of garageband, using xslimmer, monolingual, etc. but theres a point when its too much.

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Yeah, everybody likes a bloated hard drive loaded to the hilt until it fails.

im talking about the fact that hes happy he just deleted 14 gigs and that his whole os only takes up 6 gigs. if youre not going to use the space, why even have a large drive... shit like keeping music and pictures on dvds would get annoying. i cant even imagining wanting to hear a song and having to go find the dvd its on, then put it on my computer, then browse to the song just to listen to it.

believe me im all for getting rid of garageband, using xslimmer, monolingual, etc. but theres a point when its too much.

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Yeah, you're right. Reading it again, it is somewhat strange for him to keep all his media off the laptop. I just clear up the space for windows on parallels, ubuntu on bootcamp and 30 gigs of music.

I don't give a damn if it explodes as long as it doesn't do it with my data on it.

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yeh i hear yah.. i havent lost a hdd in like 5 yrs tho. i reckon most hdd's mtbf is alot longer then they state these days.

I backup extremely important stuff to dvd, I backup nonsense to a external hdd, burn off any movies/tv shows and just keep the rest on the mac... My comps preety messy tho i probably should give it some kind of clean out ... only 11 gig free on the actual internal hdd. its godamn final cut pro thats the killer.. the full installl is half my internal hdd